[-] Sam@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

I was always looking for reasons to avoid the gender segregated stuff on the playground as a kid so one winter I just gave everyone who wanted them conkers, when you destroy someone else's conker you get to tie their string to your own. Since all the trading cards and stuff had been banned from the school it was the only gacha-brain activation we could get as pre-cellphone kids so it actually was kind of popular for a month or so.

The first set of conkers I gave people were regular, but I made sure to rub Sudocrem into mine to make it stronger. Then the next set I gave out were soaked in vinegar. I didnt particularly care about winning I just thought it would keep it interesting to have a champion conker to try and beat. Eventually I had a thread about 1m long and we were running out of conkers so I gave another Sudocrem conker to my friend and let him beat mine so we could go out with a bang.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago
[-] Sam@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

He calls you Detective when he's happy

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago

Women love me, Work fears me

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 37 points 6 days ago

Last night I was talking about the base to a friend and he said they should livestream the base for when the Israelis hit it as proof, I told him they could probably flatten the whole base on camera and get away with it.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago

Xiaohongshu user Brother Pig, King of Fishing

Women love me, Fish fear me

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

They've started live testing server meshing and its hilarious because when it actually works you realise they didnt design any facet of the game for more than 20 players at a time. There literally arnt enough habs for people to spawn in, way to little elevators and screens. Everything is diagetic but in such limited quantities that when they did the 1000 player test (Which only got to 750 before crashing) people had to form actual queues to use the terminals to spawn ships. Unlike a lot of people I'm pretty confident they'll eventually release a proper game I just dont think it will be any fun at all. They just keep making the game more and more tedious in the name of "realism".

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

If they can reverse engineer IRN BRU then I believe they can do anything

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Yeah but its not like October 7th would happen in 2024 NI, Loyalist support of Israel is simply a reactionary stance brought on by Nationalist support of Palestine. I think the reason is more that he is, like many people here, incredibly adverse to paramilitary violence. It's easy to see how a person with a Loyalist background with a "civility" mindset could be shocked into returning to their traditional Right Wing Loyalist roots when seeing the Left wing Nationalists support what they see to be a unforgivable act of violence similar to the Troubles.

Then again who the fuck knows maybe he got converted by Facebook or is just being opportunistic, maybe he recently got married or divorced or a million other personal things that lead to these kinds of changes.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Except the Anglos will be the last to suffer from this, when it comes to this sort of thing the order of getting shat on goes Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and then England. In NI right now the NHS has already collapsed effectively, even vital stuff like cancer treatments are now at the point where people are dying on the wait lists, all its going to take is the introduction of privatised A&E and it'll all be gone.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

#Tradle #830 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://oec.world/en/games/tradle

Me and my friend are from here and even he didn't realise where it was, so I can see how it might trip people up

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